Open Type and Glyphs

One of the great things about the type engine in Illustrator from CS and beyond is it was updated to allow you to take advantage of some…of the more advanced features and some type that's out there, mainly open type and it added a palette called glyphs…which really let's you see the entire typeface at a glance.…So here's what you might do with those.…First of all, to see the Open Type palette, it actually only applies to certain fonts, open type fonts or typefaces so let me go to the type menu…for a second and go to font and point out something you may have been wondering about.…

If you look in front of these fonts, you can see there is a little symbol, I've got a TT here.…I've got an O here.…I've got, if I keep rolling down, there's one, an A here.…These are three different kinds of fonts and you may even have some that show an MM for multiple master.…These are known as type one fonts with the A or postscript fonts.…These are true type fonts and the O is open type fonts.…Open type is actually a kind of container that goes around a font and allows it to work on both windows and Macintosh platforms…

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6/10/2005

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